Page 5 - Animal Facts

Honey bees have hair on their eyes!


Honey bees serve a very crucial role in the environment, and it isn't just to sting, and scare the crap out of you while your outside! As you probably know, bees are responsible for travelling from flower to flower transferring pollen. The pollen is able to transfer with the bee because of all the tiny hairs on the bees body, which pollen gets stuck in.

You've probably figured it out at this point - bees have tiny hairs on their eyes in order to transfer more pollen with every visit. Mother Nature always wants to maximize on productivity, as demonstrated by the every day honey bee. If you look at the picture close enough, you will see a tiny piece of pollen in the top right corner of the bees eye!

Hairy eyes to maximize productivity? Talk about dedication to your job. For more information, click the source!

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A man survived a fist fight with a crocodile!


A French fisherman swimming near an Australian yacht club had the encounter of a lifetime: A crocodile hit him on his head. The 8-foot long animal tried to push him down into the water. The man says he started punching him anywhere he could.

Twice the croc approached him, and one time his head was actually inside the croc’s mouth. He made his way to his friends’ boat where they helped him out of the water. He had non-threatening puncture wounds on his head, neck and back.

Read more about his encounter at the source.

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Blanket octopuses rip Portuguese man o' war poisonous tentacles to use as defensive weapons!


The Tremoctopus, also known as the blanket octopus, is a species of cephalopods that inhabits the surface and mid-water of subtropical and tropical oceans. They are best known for the long transparent webs that connect the dorsal and dorsolateral arms of adult females.

They exhibit an extreme degree of sexual dimorphism. Females can reach 2m in length, while males are at most a few centimeters long. Because of this smaller size, males (and also young females) have to resort to interesting defensive techniques.

Particularly, they are immune to the poison of the Portuguese man o’ war. They rip off it's tentacles and use it as a deadly defensive weapon. By contrast, the females are able to spread out their membranes and appear much larger than it actually is.

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Albino Dolphins can be either pink or white!


Albinism is a condition in which there is a problem with the pigment of the skin, hair, and eyes as a result of a lack of an enzyme known as Tyrosinase. This extremely rare condition effects all animals with a vertebrae, and is known for causing skin, hair/fur, and eyes to turn a very strong white colour.

Albino dolphins are typically white, although there have only been a few sightings of a white dolphin - one of which only lasted 20 minutes and the dolphin was never seen again. However, an albino dolphin can also be pink - as is the case with 'Pinky the Dolphin.'

Pinky was spotted in 2007 by a Louisiana boat captain in Lake Calcasieu, an inland lake in the Gulf of Mexico. Pinky was seen swimming with a small group of dolphins, all of which, were the typical greyish colour.

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You can clone your dog in South Korea!


Since Dolly the Sheep was cloned in 1996, there has been a big ethical debate over what the limits of genetic cloning should be. A company in South Korea is challenging the proverbial line in the sand by offering a $100,000 dog cloning service.

The technology is still in it's infancy and the reason there is a high ethical barrier to doing this is that the success rate for cloning is still not high enough for it to be considered safe or humane. Many of the clones don’t survive because of abnormalities. Some also get put down because the client only wanted one dog and more than one was born.

Another issue is that when you hear clone, you think that the new puppy will be exactly like the old one. However, clones, just like genetic twins, can have different personalities.

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